On second thought though, if you do not have a single entry point to your
multipage app (like a sign on page?) you will have to include the Gears init
code on any page that a user may be able to access directly via an url.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Kevin Layman <kevin.lay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that Gears is going to want to install once for your domain and
> after that anything under that domain should be good to go.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Brian Campbell <
> brian.campb...@nursinghomequality.com> wrote:
>
>> It's not an option. I have to support IE browsers and of course there's no
>> appcache support in IE prior to V9.0...and it will probably be another
>> decade before our clients upgrade...
>>
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Michael Nordman wrote:
>>
>> > Gears has been deprecated. I'd recommend looking into the
>> > offline/storage related features in HTML5 instead of Gears.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:56 AM, bcamp1973
>> > <brian.campb...@nursinghomequality.com> wrote:
>> >> Assuming a client with offline support, my assumption is to do the
>> >> following on EVERY page of the application?
>> >>
>> >> // Check for gears of course
>> >> if (!window.google || !google.gears) {
>> >> location.href = "http://gears.google.com/?
>> >> action=install&message=<your welcome message>&return=<your website
>> >> url>";
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> // Initialize local server and check for manifest update
>> >> var localServer = google.gears.factory.create('beta.localserver');
>> >> var store = localServer.createManagedStore('myManagedStoreName');
>> >> store.manifestUrl = 'myManifestFileName.json';
>> >> store.checkForUpdate();
>> >>
>> >> // Optionally initialize DB if needed on per page basis
>> >> var db = google.gears.factory.create('beta.database');
>> >> db.open('myDatabaseName');
>> >> // do db stuff
>> >> rs.close();
>> >>
>> >> Is this correct? The documentation seems pretty thorough, but wasn't
>> >> sure what's a one-time thing and what needs to be addressed on every
>> >> page session. This is my first attempt at an offline client so I'm not
>> >> used to dealing with persistence without pulling from the server ;)
>> >>
>>
>>
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